Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Parent taxon: Heterodontiformes according to C. J. Underwood 2002
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cassier 1966, Delsate 2003, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fedorowski 1912, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kriwet 2008, Kriwet et al. 2009, Nelson et al. 2016, Thies 1983, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006 and Underwood and Ward 2004
Sister taxon: Hybodontoidei
Subtaxa: Acrodonchus Amacanthus Centracion Centrodus Chalazacanthus Drepanephorus Echinodus Gyropleurodus Heterodontus Hoplonchus Hybodopsis Lepracanthus Lispacanthus Paracestracion Proheterodontus Psilacanthus Pycnacanthus Rhabdiodus Selachidea Strongyliscus Styracodus Tropidodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2), Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (8), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), United States (9: California, Maryland, North Carolina)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Hungary (1), Japan (2), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (13: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: California, Maryland)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Austria (1), France (12), Germany (1), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (4), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (12), United States (8: Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas), Uzbekistan (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (2)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (3), Luxembourg (6), the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic of Poland (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 161 collections including 201 occurrences